We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025 is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Here's everything you need to know about the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Watch the moment Heart Lamp was announced as the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025, and hear what Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi said in their speeches. youtu.be/uVH0blFhSFc

International Booker Prize 2025: Indian author and translators are first to win with a short story collection irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Here’s South African billionaire and the country’s richest man, Johann Peter Rupert, telling Donald Trump that there is no white genocide in South Africa- to his face in the Oval Office. Enjoy.

Publishers: Mark your calendars! Submissions for the 2025 Nero Book Awards open in two weeks 📆

Cauvery Madhavan wins EasternEye ACTA Award for fiction for The Inheritance. Her nuanced characters and compelling storytelling offer a powerful voice in contemporary fiction that bridges cultures and speaks universal truths. Read more easterneye.biz/cauvery-madhav… #EEACTA2025 #EEACTA

With my bestest lads last night at the Eastern Eye ACTAs Awards in London. I won the Fiction Prize 2025 for #TheInheritance!

17th International Short Story Conference. I'll be in Killarney teaching, reading w/ Éilís Ni Dhuibhne & Judith Nika Pfeifer & in a plenary w/ Robin Hemley, Madeleine D'Arcy , Katie Singer, Evelyn Conlon, Emma Hislop, Rebekah Clarkson & Robert Olen Butler. paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/06/13/int…

✨ Happy #IndieBookshopWeek! ✨ What’s your favourite thing about your local independent bookshop? Let us know! 👇 Celebrate the magic of your local independent bookshop. 🧡 📅 14–21 June #ChooseBookshops

Happy #IndependentBookshopWeek, one and all! 📚😊 We're so delighted to support Independent Bookshop Week as it kicks off today! 📚 Tell us your favourite indie below and remember to shop local this week and always, & support your favourite stores ❤️️ Books Are My Bag

It's the first day of #IndieBookshopWeek and I'm pure chuffed to share a post from the wee Bridge Books Dromore Co Down 📚 - a small and terrific bookshop in Dromore, Norn Iron. A real champion for authors and a BIG part of the local community. See below! ⬇️

How to support bookshops this #IndieBookshopWeek (14-21 June) 🛍️ Shop local 📚 Buy books 📱 Follow & tag them on social media 🎫 Attend events 💌 Sign up to their newsletter ⭐ Leave a review 🔜 Pre-order a book 🎁 Purchase a gift card 🔗 Link to their website 📣 Spread the word

It may be very small. It doesn't have lots of rooms or loads of space, but it's all mine. I'm very proud that I own, not only this tiny bookshop, but the building that houses it. It has come a long way, and I think that's something to be proud of this #IndependentBookshopWeek!

Coming to London in August! Nicola Kelly Horatio Clare

Just died and went to heaven! Thank you Dubray for having #TheInheritance and #TheTainted out front and center.🙏🏽🙏🏽

And so it came to pass ... a beautiful launch in Waterstones Cork. Thanks to cousins, poets, scribes of all kinds, friends, Mercier Press Books and Madeleine D'Arcy! #WalkingGhosts

Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery Sarah Kenny Tomás Kenny Dean Kelly's on @deankelly.bsky.social Gerry Kenny I remember 100s of conversations with Mrs Kenny who had met everybody and knew so much about Irish writing. In 1992 she told me of her sister Monica's tragic death and how it had shaped her life and beliefs.

The winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction is Donal Ryan, for Heart, Be at Peace. "For its clarity. For its perfectly pitched voices. For its humanity and kindness." - Jim Crace, Chair of Judges Congratulations, Donal! 🎉 Penguin Books UK Doubleday

Code cracked! Great proof. #TheImpossibleFortune Richard Osman Viking Books UK Olivia Mead

And thank you Books Upstairs for having me in to sign Walking Ghosts! Mercier Press Books Lorraine Courtney @